8 - 9:15p.m. - "New Birth of Freedom" Commemorative Ceremony, with a keynote address by historian Doris Kearns Goodwin, author of "Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln." The program will include "Voices of History," dramatic readings of eyewitness accounts written by soldiers and citizens swept into the events of the battle and its aftermath.

The ceremony ends with a candlelight procession to the Soldiers' National Cemetery to see luminaries marking each of the more than 3,500 graves of Union soldiers killed in the Battle of Gettysburg.